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TUNA BREATH

By: Doug Pedersen

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Written from the unique experiences of Doug Pedersen, this self-improvement book--disguised as a memoir--is at once funny, poignant, and generous, while offering genuine advice. Providing intimate insights into being a "super fat kid," an insecure teenager, and an over-aggressive, angry, and ironically arrogant Marine who was full of self-pity, Doug shares the negative emotional drivers and responses that drove him through a destructive life (including childhood obesity) before finding physical health, emotional balance, and spiritual wholeness. Tuna Breath invites us to intimately observe a troubling life journey in which the lessons to be learned are truly visceral and inspirational.

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Balboa Press

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1452575797

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Adobe Flash Platform from Start to Finish

Working Collaboratively Using Adobe Creative Suite 5

By: Aaron Pedersen,James Polanco,Doug Winnie

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Adobe Flash Platform from Start to Finish

Working Collaboratively Using Adobe Creative Suite 5

By: Aaron Pedersen,James Polanco,Doug Winnie

Create and execute cutting-edge projects using the Adobe Flash Platform! This book explores a Flash Platform project’s life cycle, diving deep into each phase — planning, design, development, build and release, and continued maintenance. This comprehensive guide is for your entire team to refer to during the development process, including business executives, project managers, creative directors, designers, developers, and quality assurance and build engineers, explaining how each role contributes to the overall process. The book also highlights the Adobe applications — Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash Builder 4, Flash Professional CS5 and other Adobe Creative Suite 5 programs — so you can leverage the latest technology to accomplish the task at hand. Whether you’re a one-person shop or a large multi-department team, this guide details the process and scales to the key requirements of your project. About the Authors: Aaron Pedersen is cofounder of DevelopmentArc and has more than a decade of Web application experience for small startups and Fortune 500 companies. He focuses on user interface technologies, including Adobe Flash Platform (Adobe Flex, AIR) and JavaScript. He has been a lead, planner, and architect on many groundbreaking projects for Lexus.com, Scion.com, Adobe Marketplace, Yahoo Mail Flickr application, and WorkflowLab for Adobe. James Polanco is a Web application architect and cofounder of DevelopmentArc, focusing on ActionScript development, design patterns, and component implementations. He has worked with such clients as Scion.com, Lexus.com, Toyota.com, Libsyn Podcast Analytics Dashboard, Fake Science Music Store, Industrial Light & Magic, and Adobe Systems. He is an avid blogger, speaker, and researcher with a particular interest in technology implementations, best practices, and analysis of Web enabled tools and technologies. Doug Winnie is the principal product manager for Adobe Flash Catalyst, Flash Platform Workflow, and WorkflowLab. He is responsible for the integration of Adobe Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, and Flash Builder, driving the growth of collaborative workflows between designers and developers using the Adobe Flash Platform. Doug is also an instructor at San Francisco State University and hosts the Adobe TV shows, ”ActionScript 1:1 with Doug Winnie” and “Flash Catalyst 1:1 with Doug Winnie.”

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Pearson Education

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0321624599

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9780321624598

Professional Windows 8 Programming

Application Development with C# and XAML

By: Nick Lecrenski,Doug Holland,Allen Sanders,Kevin Ashley

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Professional Windows 8 Programming

Application Development with C# and XAML

By: Nick Lecrenski,Doug Holland,Allen Sanders,Kevin Ashley

It is an exciting time to be a Windows developer. The arrival of Windows 8 is a complete game changer. The operating system and its development platform offer you an entirely new way to create rich, full-featured Windows-based applications. This team of authors takes you on a journey through all of the new development features of the Windows 8 platform specifically how to utilize Visual Studio 2012 and the XAML/C# languages to produce robust apps that are ready for deployment in the new Windows Store. Professional Windows 8 Programming: Learn how to utilize XAML to create rich content driven user interfaces Make use of the new AppBar to create a chrome-less menu system See how to support Sensors and Geo-location on Windows 8 devices Integrate your app into the Windows 8 ecosystem with Contracts and Extensions Walks you through the new Windows 8 navigation system for multi-page apps Minimize code with Data Binding and MVVM design patterns Features tips on getting your app ready for the Windows store Maximize revenue for your app by learning about available monetization strategies

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118240820

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Black Hearts

By: Doug Johnstone

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Black Hearts

By: Doug Johnstone

A faked death, an obsessive stalker, an old man claiming he's being abused by the ghost of his late wife, and a devastating spectre from the past. The Skelfs are back in another explosive thriller, and this time things are more than personal... 'If you loved Iain Banks, you'll devour the Skelfs series' Erin Kelly &‘Nobody portrays modern Edinburgh better than Doug Johnstone. I love The Skelfs' Val McDermid _________________________________________ Death is just the beginning... The Skelf women live in the shadow of death every day, running the family funeral directors and private investigator business in Edinburgh. But now their own grief interwines with that of their clients, as they are left reeling by shocking past events. A fist-fight by an open grave leads Dorothy to investigate the possibility of a faked death, while a young woman's obsession with Hannah threatens her relationship with Indy and puts them both in mortal danger. An elderly man claims he's being abused by the ghost of his late wife, while ghosts of another kind come back to haunt Jenny from the grave ... pushing her to breaking point. As the Skelfs struggle with increasingly unnerving cases and chilling danger lurks close to home, it becomes clear that grief, in all its forms, can be deadly... _________________________________________ Praise for The Skelfs series ***Shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Book of the Year*** ***Longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year*** ***Shortlisted for Amazon Publishing Capital Crime Thriller of the Year*** &‘An engrossing and beautifully written tale that bears all the Doug Johnstone hallmarks in its warmth and darkly comic undertones' Herald Scotland &‘Gripping and blackly humorous' Observer &‘A tense ride strong, believable characters' Kerry Hudson, Big Issue &‘The power of this book, though, lies in the warm personalities and dark humour of the Skelfs, and by the end readers will be just as interested in their relationships with each other as the mysteries they are trying to solve' Scotsman &‘Remarkable' Sunday Times &‘Keeps you hungry from page to page. A crime reader can't ask anything more' The Sun &‘Mysteries aplenty ... a poignant reflection on grief and the potential for healing that lies within us all. A proper treat' Mary Paulson-Ellis &‘A thrilling, atmospheric book, set in the dark streets of Edinburgh. Move over Ian Rankin, Doug Johnstone is coming through!' Kate Rhodes &‘An unstoppable, thrilling, bullet train of a book that cleverly weaves in family and intrigue, and has real emotional impact. I totally loved it' Helen Fields &‘This enjoyable mystery is also a touching and often funny portrayal of grief ... more, please' Guardian &‘Wonderful characters: flawed, funny and brave' Sunday Times &‘Exceptional ... a must for those seeking strong, authentic, intelligent female protagonists' Publishers Weekly

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Orenda Books

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1914585305

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9781914585302

Jazz Matters

Reflections on the Music & Some of Its Makers

By: Doug Ramsey,Douglas K. Ramsey

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Jazz Matters

Reflections on the Music & Some of Its Makers

By: Doug Ramsey,Douglas K. Ramsey

Rich in anecdote and insight, Jazz Matters is a collection of essays, profiles, and reviews, by Doug Ramsey, an observer of jazz and its musicians for more than 30 years.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557280614

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9781557280619

3D User Interfaces

Theory and Practice

By: Joseph J. LaViola Jr.,Ernst Kruijff,Ryan P. McMahan,Doug Bowman,Ivan P. Poupyrev

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3D User Interfaces

Theory and Practice

By: Joseph J. LaViola Jr.,Ernst Kruijff,Ryan P. McMahan,Doug Bowman,Ivan P. Poupyrev

The Complete, Up-To-Date Guide to Building Great 3D User Interfaces for Any Application 3D interaction is suddenly everywhere. But simply using 3D input or displays isn’t enough: 3D interfaces must be carefully designed for optimal user experience. 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice, Second Edition is today’s most comprehensive primary reference to building state-of-the-art 3D user interfaces and interactions. Five pioneering researchers and practitioners cover the full spectrum of emerging applications, techniques, and best practices. The authors combine theoretical foundations, analysis of leading devices, and empirically validated design guidelines. This edition adds two new chapters on human factors and general human-computer interaction—indispensable foundational knowledge for building any 3D user interface. It also demonstrates advanced concepts at work through two running case studies: a first-person VR game and a mobile augmented reality application. Coverage Includes 3D user interfaces: evolution, elements, and roadmaps Key applications: virtual and augmented reality (VR, AR), mobile/wearable devices What 3D UI designers should know about human sensory systems and cognition ergonomics How proven human-computer interaction techniques apply to 3D UIs 3D UI output hardware for visual, auditory, and haptic/ tactile systems Obtaining 3D position, orientation, and motion data for users in physical space 3D object selection and manipulation Navigation and wayfinding techniques for moving through virtual and physical spaces Changing application state with system control techniques, issuing commands, and enabling other forms of user input Strategies for choosing, developing, and evaluating 3D user interfaces Utilizing 2D, “magic,” “natural,” multimodal, and two-handed interaction The future of 3D user interfaces: open research problems and emerging technologies

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0134034465

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9780134034461

Murder at Gates Landing

By: Doug David

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Murder at Gates Landing

By: Doug David

Edgar Wheeler was a successful businessman who was despised by everyone who knew him. He abused his wife, bullied his children, and cheated his business associates. And despite his involvement in at least three suspicious deaths, he avoided prosecution as he manipulated his way into a small fortune. When Wheeler was bludgeoned to death at the SeaVista Inn on Gates Island, California, Healy and Inspector Tony Montgomery pursued the investigation, gathering information about the victim and suspects, and through flashbacks it became clear that everyone had a powerful motive. Wheelers wife, his lawyer, his daughter, the innkeeper, and even the maid were serious suspects. A second lawyer became the prime suspect, but she was also murdered. Healy and Montgomery realized that the Golden Octagon, a stolen Chinese antiquity, was integral to the murders and the investigation. Then as they closed in on the killer, there was a third murder. Healy eliminated all the false leads and ultimately illuminated the trail of clues that led to the killer.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514405741

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AVL Systems for Bus Transit

Update

By: Doug J. Parker,Transit Cooperative Research Program

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AVL Systems for Bus Transit

Update

By: Doug J. Parker,Transit Cooperative Research Program

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 73: AVL Systems for Bus Transit: Update explores the uses of computer-aided dispatch/automatic vehicle location (CAD/AVL) systems in fixed-route and demand-responsive services (bus AVL), as well as changes in agency practices related to the use of AVL systems."--Publisher's website.

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Transportation Research Board

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0309097967

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9780309097963

Now You Know Almost Everything

The Book of Answers

By: Doug Lennox

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Now You Know Almost Everything

The Book of Answers

By: Doug Lennox

Never losing sight of the joy of discovering the ?why” of ordinary things, Now You Know Almost Everything makes sure you just about know it all.

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Dundurn

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1550025759

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9781550025750

Could I Have this Dance?

By: Doug Haverty

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Could I Have this Dance?

By: Doug Haverty

Dramatic Comedy / 3m, 3f / Unit Set Woodie Guthrie had it. Arlo may have it. It's usually hereditary, but not always passed on to every offspring. The symptoms do not normally appear until a person reaches their mid-forties. Referred to as "The Dance of Death," Huntington's Disease is a complete degeneration of the nervous system. Recently, medical researchers developed a blood test to determine if the disease is present in young people. The question is: Should we know? There are over 100,000 p

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573696144

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Alaska's Greatest Outdoor Legends

Colorful Characters Who Built the Fishing and Hunting Industries

By: Doug Kelly

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Alaska's Greatest Outdoor Legends

Colorful Characters Who Built the Fishing and Hunting Industries

By: Doug Kelly

Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska’s biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to the state’s dramatic landscapes and pristine waters to hunt and fish are supported by a large and growing network of guides, lodges, outfitters, and wildlife biologists. This book honors more than sixty of those remarkably colorful characters, past and present, people whose incredible skills were their calling cards, but whose larger-than-life personalities were what people remember after the trip is over. Taken together, these portraits offer a history of outdoor life in Alaska and celebrate its incredible natural beauty—and the people who devote their lives to helping us enjoy it.

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University of Alaska Press

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1602233004

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9781602233003

Health Psychology of Women

By: Catherine Niven,Doug Carroll

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Health Psychology of Women

By: Catherine Niven,Doug Carroll

First Published in 1993. Since health psychology is concerned with the universal values of life and death, wellbeing and suffering, it might be expected that its researchers would be keen to examine both male and female experiences of these phenomena. In practice, however, health psychology has followed health research in adopting a largely male perspective, both in its general approach and selection of topics. Women are different from men, not only in terms of anatomy, but in terms of the socialization processes to which they have been exposed and the social and economic positions they occupy. These differences have a significant impact on women's health, predisposing them to some disorders and protecting them from others. While it is true that male mortality exceeds female mortality from conception to old age, women's survival has the price of increased mental and physical illness. Men die, but women suffer. Despite a growing awareness of these differences there continues to be a distinct bias towards using male subjects for research and studying those diseases which affect more men than women. The Health Psychology of Women is a response to this imbalance and a challenge to the attitude which explores the behavior of half the population in order to draw conclusions about the experience of the whole. It is essential reading for students and researchers of psychology and health, and health professionals in training and practice.

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Psychology Press

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1134350376

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9781134350377

Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

By: Geoffrey Gray,Doug Munro,Christine Winter

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Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

By: Geoffrey Gray,Doug Munro,Christine Winter

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues’ intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors’ reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine the futures of peers and colleagues. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process, and includes accounts of the appointments of influential anthropologists such as Raymond Firth and Alexander Ratcliffe-Brown.

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Berghahn Books

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1800739710

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9781800739710

Classic Lego Mindstorms Projects and Software Tools: Award-Winning Designs from Master Builders

By: Mario Ferrari,Kevin Clague,Guilio Ferrari,Doug Carlson

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Classic Lego Mindstorms Projects and Software Tools: Award-Winning Designs from Master Builders

By: Mario Ferrari,Kevin Clague,Guilio Ferrari,Doug Carlson

A Book/DVD kit that contains 40 projects, which are aimed at the Lego audience that are committed to the RIS 1.x and 2.x standards. The DVD contains instruction for over 40 projects in Adobe PDF form, a full suite of Lego software tools, and RCX/NQC code files. The projects range from the simple to the sophisticated.

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Gulf Professional Publishing

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159749089X

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9781597490894

Judicial Rhapsodies

Rhetoric and Fundamental Rights in the Supreme Court

By: Doug Coulson

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Judicial Rhapsodies

Rhetoric and Fundamental Rights in the Supreme Court

By: Doug Coulson

All judges legitimize their decisions in writing, but US Supreme Court justices depend on public acceptance to a unique degree. Previous studies of judicial opinions have explored rhetorical strategies that produce legitimacy, but none have examined the laudatory, even operatic, forms of writing Supreme Court justices have used to justify fundamental rights decisions. Doug Coulson demonstrates that such “judicial rhapsodies” are not an aberration but a central feature of judicial discourse. First examining the classical origins of divisions between law and rhetoric, Coulson tracks what he calls an epideictic register—highly affective forms of expression that utilize hyperbole, amplification, and vocabularies of praise—through a surprising number of landmark Supreme Court opinions. Judicial Rhapsodies recovers and revalues these instances as significant to establishing and maintaining shared perspectives that form the basis for common experience and cooperation. “Judicial Rhapsodies is both compelling and important. Coulson brings his well-developed knowledge of rhetoric to bear on one of the most central (and most democratically fraught) means of governance in the United States: the Supreme Court opinion. He demonstrates that the epideictic, far from being a dispensable or detestable element of judicial rhetoric, is an essential feature of how the Court operates and seeks to persuade.” —Keith Bybee, Syracuse University

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Amherst College Press

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1943208476

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9781943208470

ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing

By: Doug Elliott,Leanne Aitken,Wendy Chaboyer,Andrea Marshall

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ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing

By: Doug Elliott,Leanne Aitken,Wendy Chaboyer,Andrea Marshall

Developed in conjunction with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN), the text has been written and edited by the most senior and experienced critical care nursing clinicians and academics across the region. ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing is a resource that will foster the development of skilled and confident critical care nurses. This comprehensive text provides detailed coverage of a number of specialty areas within critical care nursing including intensive care, emergency nursing, cardiac nursing, neuroscience nursing and acute care. It will encourage students to be reflective practitioners, ethical decision-makers and providers of evidence-based care. Written by expert clinicians, academics, and educators Pedagogically rich chapters with learning objectives, key terms, case studies, practice tips, article abstracts, learning activities, research vignettes Heavily illustrated and referenced Reflects current clinical practice, policies, procedures and guidelines The text has a patient-centred approach and will provide students with a sound knowledge base and critical thinking skills Image bank of all illustrations from the text will be available to lecturers for teaching

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Elsevier Australia

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0729537706

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9780729537704

Client/server Computing for Dummies

By: Doug Lowe

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Client/server Computing for Dummies

By: Doug Lowe

Java distributed computing, Intranets, and Windows NT: the face of client/server computing continues to evolve. Readers can keep current with this top-selling and comprehensive reference.

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